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Paul Vixie on How the Openness of the Internet Is Poisoning Us

  • Jun 10, 2014 2:57 PM PST
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In a video interview conducted during the NSCS ONE conference, Paul Vixie CEO of Farsight Security (CircleID) further discusses the topic of his presentation titled, "Defective by Design — How the Internet's Openness is Slowly Poisoning Us". Embedded below is the video interview conducted by Chris van 't Hof of Tek Tok:

Related topics: Cyberattack, Cybercrime, DNS, DNS Security, IP Addressing, IPv6, Malware, Security

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Openness seems to be a misnomer Alessandro Vesely  –  Jun 17, 2014 11:46 PM PST

We shouldn't conflate libertarianism with laissez-faire.  The ability to hide the true identity of an operator, for example, can hardly be considered openness.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/government_use.htmlhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/arch Charles Christopher  –  Jun 18, 2014 3:42 PM PST

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/government_use.html

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/10/academic_freedo.html

bruce has a number of other great posts on the subject.

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